The Spiritual Variable Flashcards
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Faith Flags
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Presencing
3
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Should not be prescriptive (i.e., the following of a set guideline for intervening to resolve a client’s spiritual problem). Instead it should be descriptive of ways nurses can offer spiritual support.
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Spiritual Care
(p. 955)
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Refers to “a disturbance in the belief or value system that provides strength, hope, and meaning to life.”
- Expresses lack of hope, meaning of life, inadequate acceptance of self
- Expresses feeling abandoned or anger toward power greater than self
- Refuse interaction with significant others
- Exhibits sudden changes in spiritual practices
- Requests (or refused) to interact with a spiritual leader
- Has no interest in nature or in reading spiritual literature.
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Spiritual Distress
(p. 955)
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Results when individuals intentionally seek to strengthen their spiritual muscles, as it were, through various spiritual disciplines (e.g., prayer, meditation, service, fellowship with similar believers, learning from a spiritual mentor, worship, study, fasting)
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Spiritual Health
- opposite of spiritual distress*
- does not occur by chance, but by choice*
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Spiritual History
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Spiritual Need
